A Mighty Wind is another one of Christopher Guest's mocumentaries, this time focusing on the world of folk music.  A highly respected member of the folk  music community passes away, and to honor his memory, many of the musicians that he'd produced and inspired come together to play in a benefit for the folk music pioneer.  In the movie are all the people that usually are...

Adaptation is a movie that was directed by Spike Jonze (Being John Malkovitch, music videos for Fatboy Slim, Beastie Boys and many other artists), and written by Charlie Kaufmann.  The movie chronichles Kaufann's problems adapting a book (The Orchid Thief by Susan Orlean) into a movie.  Charlie and his fictional twin brother are both played by Nicholas Cage, and the movie also sta...

Almost Famous is Cameron Crowe's semi-autobiographical story of a teenage boy who is hired to write a story on a rock band for Rolling Stone magazine.  The character of William is based off of Cameron Crowe, since he too was a teenager when he wrote for Rolling Stone, covering such bands as Led Zepplin.  The band in the movie, Stillwater, is fictitious, but they draw off of r...

This is the Seventh Season of the reality show where approximatly fifteen teams race around the world to different checkpoints and try to avoid being the last to arrive at the checkpoint, or they would possibly face elimination from the Race.  Along the paths are other challenges that either one or both of the team memeber would participate in, and as the teams get further you start to rea...

50 First Dates is a movie starring Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore that is a romantic comedy set in Hawaii.  In it, Sandler plays a character is is a womaniser and is always on the prowl.  He then meets Barrymore, a waitress at a diner, who has no short term memory after she goes to bed each night.  The reason for the memory loss is a car accident several years ago, and she think...

The Back to the Future trilogy stars Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd.  Lloyd is the eccentric Dr. Emmet Brown, who invents a time machine that is powered on garbage.  Michael J. Fox plays his friend, teenager Marty McFly, and ends up trying to use the time machine to save Dr. Brown, who falls into some bad alliances, and thats all in the first movie.  I grew up watching thes...

Johnny English (Widescreen Edition) on DVD is a sub-par movies starring Rowan Atkinson (known better as Mr. Bean on the BBC series of the same name, seen in the United States on HBO), in a rather Bean-like role as a bumbling special agent.  I didn't much care for this spoof on James Bond type movies, but it was enough to get me through it.  The movie lacked direction, and I didn&#...

Bean: The Movie is a feature length movie staring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean, a clumsy, goofy and sometimes awkward man who lives in England, and shows is what should be day-to-day life, but when Bean is involved in something that should be normal, anything is possible.  I generally find Atkinson's brand of slapstick humor rather entertaining, and this movie is no different.  In t...

The Big Lebowski (1998) is a movie written and directed by the brothers Joel and Ethan Coen (The Hudsucker Proxy, Fargo) starring Jeff Bridges and Coen Brothers regulars John Goodman and Steve Buscemi as a trio of bowlers who have pretty much no direction in their life.  Jeffery "The Dude" Lebowski (Bridges) is the central character to this insane comedy who does pretty much...

Chicago (2000) is a musical starring Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere and Renée Zellweger in prohibition era Chicago, and Zeta-Jones is a singer in a speakeasy convicted of killing her manager (her husband) and his lover (who was also her sister and partner in her act), and Zellweger is an aspiring singer who kills the man who she's having an affair with when she finds out that he&...

Dead Like Me the entire First Season on DVD tells the story of George (Ellen Muth) as a recently deceased teenage girl who becomes a grim reaper.  The show was originally aired on Showtime, so the content is not safe for younger audiences, seeing as it has foul language, nudity, sex, and drug referances.  Also featured in the show is Mandy Patinking (from The Princess Bride)...

Donnie Darko: The Director's Cut DVD is an instant cult-classic movie starring Jake Gyllenhaal as the title character, a high school student who is going through a rough time emotionally.  He is suffering from boughts of insomnia, and when he does sleep, he ends up waking up in odd places.  At one point, this is a good thing, because an engine from an airplane falls through the ro...

Earth Girls Are Easy is a movie from 1989 that stars Jeff Goldblum, Gena Davis, Damon Waynes and Jim Carrey.  Goldblum is the head alien trying to find a prime specimin of femality (Davis), and is assisted by future stars of In Living Color, Waynes and Carrey.  She gives them makeovers after they crash land their spaceship in her swimming pool in the backyard of her California home.&n...

Edward Scissorhands is Tim Burton's unique fairytale about a young man played by Johnny Depp who grows up in a castle above a suburban home owner's association type communtiy.  When the scientist who created Edward passes away, he doesn't know what to do with himself since his scientist creator gave him scissors for fingers.  One day a woman from the community below shows ...

Empire Records: Remix! Special Fan Edition DVD is the director's cut of the under rated movie released in 1995.  The movie stars Anthony LaPaglia as Joe, the owner of an independant music shop called Empire Records.  He has many colorful employees including Liv Tyler (Armegedon, Reign Over Me), Rory Cochran (Dazed & Confused, CSI: Miami), and Renee Zellweger (Chicago, the Brid...

Frailty is a movie that was originally released in 2002, and stars Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, and Matthew McConaughey.  Bill Paxton stars as a widower who is raising his two sons on his own after the passing of his life, and thinks that he is being told by God to kill deamons that have assumed human form.  Mconaughey plays the adult son of Paxton who goes to Powers Boothe, who plays ...

Girl on DVD is a movie starring Sean Patrick Flannery and Domonique Swain that came out in 1998.  This is one of the few movies I've seen in my life that I've actually regretted watching, and ended up turning it off half way through it.  Flannery plays a local musician named Todd Sparrow who is a highly respected musician in his local area, and has quite a cult following. ...

Guitar Hero 2 for the PS2 is the second in the Guitar Hero franchise, and I feel that it is the best of the series so far.  The game came out in 2005 and is highly entertaining.  It has a guitar controller that has 5 fret buttons on it as well as a button where the string would typically be strummed.  On the televison screen you see the guitar player you selected as your avatar, ...

Guitar Hero 3 for the PS2 is the third in the Guitar Hero franchise, and I feel that it is the second best of the series.  The game came out in 2007 and is highly entertaining.  It has a guitar controller that has 5 fret buttons on it as well as a button where the string would typically be strummed.  On the televison screen you see the guitar player you selected as...

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a movie starring Martin Freeman, Zooey Deschanel, and Mos Def.  It is a somewhat faithful adaptation of the classic science fiction comedy written by Douglas Adams.  The story starts on the last day the Earth is in existance, and a man named Aurthur Dent (Freeman) is visited by his friend Ford Prefect (Def), who he finds out is an alien with...